>Hi Tweets,
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> Further southwest along the path was the first Yellow-Rumped
>Warbler of the day. I'm new at these, so I had to look up in my Natl G
>book to confirm that it was a Myrtle's. It was calling softly, barely
>opening its beak. Once I recognized the call, I heard another off to the
>southwest. Close to the Bathhouse was an Audubon's, calling but more
>loudly than the Myrtle's. Then I began hearing many such calls, mostly
>emanating from the cherry grove west of the Bathhouse. (I love that feeling of
>the world opening up around you when you first recognize something that's
>probably been going on all along!) The three additional Y-R warblers that
>I actually saw this morning were all Audubon's.
> Made it down to the island before the rain really got going. Barn
>swallows have joined the Tree and Rough-Winged. No sign of activity at
>the possible Tree Swallow nesting site that Martin Muller and I saw the
>other day, though I didn't watch for long enough. But several Tree
>Swallows were hanging out noisily at a dead trunk between the Bathhouse
>and the island.
> A Flicker question left over from last month in my notes: I
>watched one pecking at a loose chunk of birch bark on a tree by the lake.

Hi tweeters: This is my introductory note. Just such a coincidence I had
to comment. I spent the weekend at Green Lake -- near Cache Creek in
British Columbia. There I found many ducks -- Goldeneye, Bufflehead,
Canvasback -- at least a half dozen beautiful loons, two pair golden eagles,
and two bald eagles (eating fish from a stream). Not to mention red-winged
blackbirds in the bulrushes, and ruby-crowned kinglets flitting in the
poplars. But here is the coincidence -- there were beautiful tree swallows
making nests in the brush, Flickers drumming in an old stump, and the first
audubon warbler I have ever encountered. Do they usually reside in terrain
similar to red-winged blackbirds? Their call sounds similar to me, although
sharper and louder. It was a thrill to me. A great day birding.

Carol
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